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...broiling day in August almost a decade later, Shakur offers me a tour of her newly constructed ranch home in Lumberton, N.C. She shows off a bathroom the size of a small apartment and talks up the 56 acres of farmland where she's growing USDA-certified organic crops and raising animals. That is what her son has left her. And it's easy to see what she gave him. She is excitable and charismatic, and she talks--and curses--freely, laughing in the middle of crying. In the late '60s, Shakur was one of the more outspoken black power...
...Stiles, who runs Duke's Health Systems Network Development program, openly acknowledges that Duke's motives are more than just magnanimity. "We live in a very competitive market here. We either help people and catch them where we can, or we kiss them goodbye." So Duke goes out to Lumberton and Laurinburg, screens patients and transfers the sicker ones back to Duke, where they or their insurers will pay for them to get well. Duke also collaborates with community organizations in other cost-saving joint ventures, such as a child-abuse-prevention center, a teenage-pregnancy-prevention program and safe...
BORN: Aug. 6, 1956, Lumberton EDUCATION: U of North Carolina, B.A., 1978, J.D., 1981 FAMILY: Wife, Dee Strickland; two children RELIGION: Presbyterian MILITARY: None OCCUPATION: Lawyer POLITICAL CAREER: None ADDRESS: 109 North Court Square, P.O. Box 1, Lumberton...
When asked about her influences McCorkle expressed her admiration of many Southern writers. Favorites included Truman Capote, Katherine Anne Porter and John Updike. After this list of people, McCorkle exclaimed, "Then I realized I live next door to all these people." McCorkle was raised in Lumberton, North Carolina and graduated from University of North Carolina. She now lives in Cambridge and teaches Creative Writing at Harvard while simultaneously raising a family...
CONVICTED. DANIEL ANDRE GREEN, 21; of the murder of James R. Jordan, father and confidant of basketball wizard Michael Jordan; in Lumberton, North Carolina. The jury, which reached its decision in 4 1/2 hours over two days, must now decide if Green will receive the death penalty...